Description
Salary: The salary range for this position is CAD $59.56 - $85.62 / hour
Job Summary: Bring your clinical expertise and passion for providing quality, compassionate care to a challenging and rewarding role as a Cardiac Clinic Nurse Practitioner. The Royal Columbian Hospital Cardiac Clinic is an integrated outpatient clinic and the only one of its kind in the lower mainland where the multidisciplinary team manages both Heart failure and Atrial fibrillation patients using evidence-based care.
As B.C.’s oldest hospital, and one of its busiest, Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) also provides expert care to the province’s most seriously ill or injured. RCH also provides a number of highly specialized acute care services such as tertiary trauma, cardiology, cardiac surgery, electrophysiology, interventional cardiology, neurosurgery and vascular surgery that often require the care of multiple medical specialists, multidisciplinary care teams and the use of specialized equipment and technology.
At RCH Cardiac clinic, the patients have complex medical needs and will require patient education and optimization of therapy through medications, access to Cardioversion and Ablation procedures as well as device therapy over multiple visits. Once optimized, patients are returned to their Primary care Providers or specialists for ongoing care. The Nurse practitioner will be working with the team which comprises of Heart failure specialists, Electrophysiologists, Registered nurses, Dietitian, Pharmacist and unit clerks.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Nurse Practitioner to join our Cardiac Clinic Team at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, BC. As part of this rewarding role, the NP works collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team with a coordinated approach to ensure safe, quality, effective, and timely care for patients. The NP role contributes to patient care through advanced NP clinical practice, education, consultation, research, leadership and professional practice.
Come be a part of our innovative and unique cardiac clinic team in New Westminster. New Westminster is located on the north side of the Fraser River with several bordering municipalities in each direction (Burnaby, Coquitlam, Surrey and Delta), making it the centre of the Greater Vancouver region. The city is only about 30 minutes (20 km) from Vancouver’s city centre and 30 minutes to Washington state, USA.
This is a great opportunity for a New Graduate Nurse Practitioner to join a well supported fellowship program to help consolidate clinical skills. You will be welcomed into a New Graduate NP Community of Practice team helping to support your successful transition into independent practice. Be part of our clinical enhancement program with regular in house skills development such as 12 lead ECG interpretation, Point of Care ultrasound (POCUS), suturing and x-ray interpretation in addition to receiving centralized NP orientation.
Detailed Overview:
- Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families.
- The Nurse Practitioner is responsible and accountable for the comprehensive assessment of patients/clients/residents including diagnosing diseases, disorders, and conditions.
- The Nurse Practitioner initiates treatment including health care management, therapeutic interventions and prescribes medications in accordance with the statutory and regulatory standards, limits, and conditions, and employer policies and procedures.
Responsibilities:
- Diagnoses and treats previously undiagnosed patients/clients/residents for undifferentiated diseases, disorders, and conditions within the Nurse Practitioner's scope of practice.
- Writes orders for treatment and medications; provides first line care in emergencies.
- Monitors ongoing care, orders appropriate screening diagnostic investigations; interprets reports of investigations and analyzes information to monitor progress and plan treatment.
Qualifications:
- Current practicing registration as a Nurse Practitioner with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).
- Recent relevant clinical nursing experience.
About Fraser Health:
Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.
People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.
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